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How to convert iTunes DRM videos from .M4V to .MP4

As is known to all, iTunes is getting more and more popular, and people often watch videos in iTunes by purchasing and renting. You can play iTunes movie or music on Apple device like iPhone or iPad, but you can’t do that on non-Apple device, especially on Android devices. This is because iTunes movie and music are DRM protected.
Let’s have a look of DRM. M4V format is a video format developed by Apple Inc., and is widely used in iTunes videos, movies, and TV shows. Actually, M4V format is much close to MP4 format.
So if you want to play iTunes movie on a non-Apple device, you must remove DRM protection first. This post tells you how to remove iTunes DRM and convert m4v to MP4.

m4v converter
Adoreshare M4V Converter Genius is the software that can convert DRM-Protected iTunes M4V Videos to Any Format to Play Anywhere. You can trim, edit, rename during the conversion. You will know more details on the following page.

What you need to prepare:

Detailed Steps to convert iTunes M4V videos to MP4:

Step 1: Add the M4V videos to Adoreshare M4V Converter Genius.                                               You can add one or more M4V files to it. There are two ways

  • Click the “Add” button and choose the M4V videos
  • Drag the M4V videos to the program directly(This is easier)

add m4v video

Step 2: Choose “MP4” as output format. From the format bar, click “Video”->”MP4”.
Tips: Adoreshare M4V Converter Genius allows you to choose output format as these 6 categories: Recent, Devices, Video, Web share, HD & 3D, Audio. You also can choose other output format like AVI, MKV, WMV.

Select output format
Step 3: Specify Output Folder to save the converted videos.
You can click ”Browser” button to choose the output folder. If you don’t change it, the converted videos will be saved in a fault folder named Adoreshare.
Select output folder

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start. The process bar will be displayed with the number of videos that are being converted.
start-converting

This is the whole conversion steps of removing iTunes M4V DRM. Now find the converted videos, you can play them on any devices and anywhere.

Further reading: The differences of M4V and MP4

  • M4V was created by Apple, which can protect M4V files copyright and prevent Apple devices from transferring files to the users who didn’t pay for the content. M4V files can only be play on Apple devices.
  • MP4 is a popular video format and has no copyright protection. You can play the MP4 videos on any video players and devices.